Allan Riverstone McCulloch

Alan Riverstone McCulloch ( born June 20, 1885 in Sydney, † September 1, 1925 in Honolulu) was an Australian zoologist.

McCulloch was interested from an early age for zoology and began to work in Sydney at the age of 13 years as an unpaid assistant in the Australian Museum. Three years later he was appointed technical assistant and five years later curator of the fish section of the Museum, a post he held until his death in 1925. He was an obsessive collector and published a number of scientific works, including original descriptions. After its first publication in 1906, was never a year without major scientific publication. In total, he wrote to his death over 100 works, many of them provided with his own illustrations. He took part in several expeditions that took him to Queensland, Lord Howe Iceland, New Guinea, and on many Pacific islands and the Great Barrier Reef. His main interest was the fish he had held from 1905 to 1921 as the line of Krustazeensammlung at the Australian Museum. He wrote several important works on decapods.

However, McCulloch's almost hectic research activity seems to have attacked his health. He had to leave for health reasons, but died in Honolulu a few months later. He left behind a collection that ultimately comprised 40,000 species. Many of his works were published after his death, including the results of his trip on the research ship "Endeavour", in which he described numerous new species. The American zoologist David Starr Jordan called him " the greatest authority for the fishery in the southern hemisphere ". His memorial stone to Lord Howe Iceland was erected in honor.